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Program
Agenda
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Program
Objectives
- Provide an overview on recent revisions
and modifications to the Medicare Part D benefit, with a
focus on those aspects that affect long-term care pharmacy
owners
- Provide an update on legal and
regulatory issues that are currently impacting long-term
care pharmacy owners and how these issues may affect the
delivery of services to facilities
- Identify and discuss new technologies
that can assist long-term care pharmacy providers in improving
efficiencies and profitability within their businesses
- Discuss new marketplace challenges
that are affecting the interaction between long-term care
pharmacy owners, prescription drug plans, and other long-term
care decision-makers
- Provide perspectives from a broad
group of healthcare thought-leaders on the dynamic senior
care marketplace and how long-term care pharmacy owners
can maximize their opportunities within this environment
Continuing
Education Information
Managed Health
Care Associates, Inc. has applied for pharmacy continuing
education credit for this meeting.
Program Description
The nation's
largest alternate site GPO is holding its 5th Annual MHA Business
Summit for Long-Term Care Pharmacies and other industry partners
on March 27-28, 2008, at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Last year's Business Summit attracted over 310 pharmacy attendees
and 160 industry partners. MHA is looking forward to building
on those numbers at this year's Business Summit. The 2008
MHA Business Summit will continue to focus on strategies to
maximize long-term care pharmacy opportunities under Medicare
Part D. Other topics will include an implementation update
on state and federal regulatory issues that pertain to pharmacy
services, new technologies that are improving efficiencies,
reducing costs, improving medication errors, and reimbursement
and financial management strategies. As in the past, this
year's Business Summit will feature speakers from different
sectors of the industry including national thought-leaders,
representatives from federal and state offices, prescription
drug plans, nursing home and assisted living owners, independent
pharmacy owners, and various industry lobbying associations.
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